Richard Perle
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Richard Perle is a former neoconservative pentagon policy advisor who was chairman of the Defense Policy Board for 17 years[1]. Perle served as assistant secretary for defence under Ronald Reagan, during this time he was known as "The Prince of Darkness"[2]. Seymour Hersh described Perle as "one of the most outspoken and influential supporters of the war in Iraq [3].
Perle was on the board of Hollinger International who owned The Telegraph and The Spectator, while simultaneously chairing the Defense Policy Board[4]. While Perle was chairing the Defense Policy Board he worked with Devon Cross[5], who sold the Iraq war to the british press in her PR role with the Lincoln Group"[6].
Affiliations
- Defense Policy Board
- Foundation for the Defense of Democracies
- Henry Jackson Society Project for Democratic Geopolitics, a British neo-conservative organisation.
- New Atlantic Initiative
- Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs
- United States Committee for a Free Lebanon
- American Center for Democracy
- Trireme
- American Enterprise Institute
Resources
- Neocon Europe Richard Perle
- Rightweb Richard Perle
Notes
- ↑ Julian Borger, Pentagon Hardliner resigns from post, 27-February-2004, Accessed 15-May-2009
- ↑ Julian Borger, Pentagon Hardliner resigns from post, 27-February-2004, Accessed 15-May-2009
- ↑ Seymour M. Hersh,Lunch With the Chairman, The New Yorker, 17-March-2003, Accessed 15-May-2009
- ↑ Julian Borger, Pentagon Hardliner resigns from post, 27-February-2004, Accessed 15-May-2009
- ↑ Jim Lobe, Is the Pentagon Policy Shop Funding Likudist Fronts?, IPS, 18-March-2008, Accessed 08-April-2009
- ↑ Policy Forum, About Us, Accessed 08-April-2009
